The kids are not alright. You may remember yesterday’s look at Turning Point USA’s women’s leadership summit, but hold on. There’s more. My colleague Philip Wegmann at the Washington Examiner published a very concerning story this morning on how the organization has struggled with allegations of sexual assault and harassment at its conferences.
Best Lieutenant Governor Ever? Before today, I hadn’t really ever heard of Utah’s Spencer J. Cox, but his late-night Twitter thread on tribalism has gotten (rightly) much attention. I don’t want to spoil any of it for you, so give it a read.
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Only in Russia. My fifth-grade civics teacher beat into our heads that culture, broadly speaking, is a “way of life.” And it’s safe to say, when it comes to Russia, theirs is … peculiar. Consider this now-pulled Burger King ad the Associated Press reports: “promised a reward of free burgers to women who get ‘the best football genes’ and ‘ensure the success of the Russian team for generations to come.’” Nationalism is a hell of a drug.
Wait, what? We all know that Bill Belichick and the Patriots are dirty spying cheaters, but trying to read signals is as old as sports. Spying has gotten more complicated. Consider, then, this story about how Sweden tried to spy on South Korea’s World Cup team. Come for the methods, but stay for the line where a South Korean coach says: “They might know a few of our players but it is very difficult for Westerners to distinguish between Asians.”
Remember Jurassic Park III? Well, it’s been 17 years since it came out, and we’re approaching the fifth movie in the franchise. Take a look back at why it was so terrible.
When ‘All You Can Eat’ Goes Wrong. An all-you-can-eat restaurant in China tried a version of Olive Garden’s Pasta Pass, offering folks at $25 month-long pass. You can imagine where it goes from here. Within days, the joint was $100,000 in debt.
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